The Competence Trap: Exploring Issues in Winning and Sustaining Core Competence

Aidan O'Driscoll; David Carson; Audrey Gilmore

doi:10.21427/d7fr16

The Competence Trap: Exploring Issues in Winning and Sustaining Core Competence

Aidan O'Driscoll, David Carson, Audrey Gilmore

Graduate Business School

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Abstract

The organisational struggle to maintain and refine, yet also necessarily to renew and replace core capabilities, is a complex, and at times paradoxical, challenge. This paper reflects on this managerial task and on the difficulties and tensions inhering in its possible resolution. In sum, it asks how can the need to leverage competence for today be balanced with the requirement to build competence for tomorrow?

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	73-90
Journal	Irish Journal of Management
Volume	22
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21427/d7fr16
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2001

Keywords

organisational struggle
core capabilities
managerial task
difficulties
tensions
leverage competence
build competence

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